I Kill Spies

I love this guy. See also his older site.

He’s a Japanese chaos magnet! I feel like we’re related!

He had a really odd article about Micky Yanai (ミッキー柳井), a nutty porn actor who does this thing which can only be described as “Helicopter Fuck.” Must be seen to be believed.

The site description:

MasaManiA=道徳遊戯

新聞に載らない日本紹介
Japanese culture report by MasaManiA with fucking photo & poor English you never seen at boring CNN, Time or major sophisticated jurnalism.

もっとも道徳的な人とは問題からもっとも遠ざかっている人のことである –

I don’t know what is good, bad, right or wrong,
but I certainly know there is the truth ! and I also know it must be FUCK !
I’m not moralist. but wana be mania of the truth. MasaManiA means that. this is my philosophy.

Web link of note: MasaManiA
(At http://masamania.com/)

The best thing about this (sprite) web comic is it uses the SAME panels, in the SAME order, every episode! Too funny.
Web link of note: Dinosaur Comics
(At http://www.qwantz.com/)

A practical utility for activists: a site that helps conference and event attendees find rides and form carpools.

Your attendees want to find others to share rides and accomodations, but how do they connect with the right people?

SpaceShare web applications let attendees reach out to each other by submitting room and transportation preferences, then…

.. our software (using patented Match-O-Tronicâ„¢ technology) finds the right connections. So now…

… attending your event is less expensive, more environmentally friendly, and a lot more fun!

I met the guy who runs this (Stephen Cataldo) at Thai Brunch in Berkeley last weekend.
Web link of note: SpaceShare
(At http://spaceshare.org/)

KHAAAAN!!!!

Thanks to T. Jaxon for sending this to me.
Web link of note: KHAAAN !!
(At http://www.khaaan.com/)

I was just watching Star Trek II, which I hadn’t seen in many years. It had been too long; I missed the contest between Ricardo Montalban and William Shatner as they try to outdo each other in over-the-top acting.

The opening and setup for the plot is a lot better than I remembered. Chekov and his new captain are looking for a planet completely devoid of life for a science experiment. After searching for weeks, they are growing weary of this chore. They find a planet, Ceti Alpha VI, which is almost lifeless- but they have to check it out to be sure.

They find Khan there with the remnants of his crew, abandoned there by Kirk in the 1967 Star Trek episode “Space Seed.” Khan being the villain in that episode played by Montalban.

Apparently their paradise world Ceti Alpha V was turned into a lifeless, waterless desert when its neighbor, Ceti Alpha VI, exploded- the planet Chekov believed to be Ceti Alpha VI is actually that ruined world, Ceti Alpha V.

However I realized something- planets are numbered from the inside out. If Ceti Alpha VI exploded in an unspecified catastrophe… its next-innermost sibling planet would still be called Ceti Alpha V. The next outermost planet, Ceti Alpha VII, might be mistaken for Ceti Alpha VI, but still Ceti Alpha V would remain #5.

I also noticed that Khan’s full name is Khan Noonien Singh – in the Next Generation series, the scientist who creates Data (Brent Spiner) is named Dr. Noonien Soong.

How about that.

KIRK: KHAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

A shrine to the Bell Telephone system. My favorite part is the recorded announcements section.
Web link of note: Bell System Memorial
(At http://www.bellsystemmemorial.com/)

This thing won a bunch of design awards recently, and no wonder- it’s totally brilliant. It’s a small portable object for making drinking water from unpotable water- all using only evaporation!
Web link of note: Watercone
(At http://www.watercone.com/)

A good summary of the phrase “cognitive dissonance”
Web link of note: Cognitive Dissonance
(At http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/dissonance.htm)

I just heard a metroPCS ad on the radio – they were complaining about the existence of “nighttime minutes” etc:

BOY: “What’s next, you get 20,000 Equinox Minutes? you can only use them once a year when the sun is at its peak.”

Actually, phone dork, that would be Summer Solstice Minutes. The longest day of the year is called the Summer Solstice. The shortest day is the Winter Solstice.

There are two Equinoxes (equinocies? equinoxen?)- a Fall Equinox and a Spring Equinox. equi- like “equal” or “equivalent.” It’s when the day is as long as the night. You might say it’s equal parts light and dark.

Given my compulsive fact-checking, it is hard for me to imagine writing an ad like this and never questioning its accuracy.

You know who would have caught this? Druid ad agencies. Or a druid/wiccan marketing department. Now there’s another example of workplace cultural diversity adding to the value of the company!

total insanity. Does this mean that the standard web browser has more power than an Amiga did back in the day? I loved the original version of this game; I think I beat the entire thing… at least most of it.

Maybe next they’ll make DHTML Populous.
Web link of note: Lemmings in DHTML
(At http://193.151.73.87/games/lemmings/)